966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

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    Europe’s the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

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    I can’t do with mountains at close quarters – they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

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    The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

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    Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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    When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

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    Shame, what was it? It was part of extreme delight. It was that part of delight of which man is usually afraid. Why afraid? The secret, shameful things are most terribly beautiful.

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    The picture must all come out of the artist’s inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

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    And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.

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    Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

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